Desperation Quotes - Page 5

• The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Inspirational, Honesty, Suffering

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.195, David C Cook

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• Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

  Zadie Smith

  Empathy, Stronger, Weakness

  "This Week in Fiction: Zadie Smith" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. February 3, 2013.

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• It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  Olivia Wilde

  School, Succeed, Helpful

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• I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

  Winston Churchill

  Depression, Water, Bipolar

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• As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.

  Billy Corgan

  Reality, Years, Differences

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• Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

  Albert Brooks

  Insecurity, World, Attractive

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• Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

  George R. R. Martin

  Folly, Hard

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.418, Bantam

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• People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.

  Javier Marías

  People, Panic, Bears

  "A Heart So White" by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, New Directions, (p. 121), 2002.

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• I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Abortion, Suffering

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• Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Religious, Responsibility, People

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• It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

  Hilary Mantel

  People, Trying, Monsters

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• Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Circles, Becoming

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• There's no deodorant for desperation.

  Jerry Stahl

  Deodorant

  Jerry Stahl (2008). “I, Fatty”, p.248, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.

  Marianne Williamson

  Lessons To Be Learned, Mr Right, Perfect

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Inspiration in desperation.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Inspiration

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy. And with that energy he cast a spell. It was a spell without words... His was a spell of instinct and emotion; language could not contain it.

  Christopher Paolini

  Energy, Stories, Emotion

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• She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Daughter, Dream, Strong

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.21, Bantam

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• The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Spring, Real, Water

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• But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

  Keith Richards

  People, Feelings, Records

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• But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

  Rachel Cohn

  Guy, Doe, Attention

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.43, Egmont UK

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• On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Dirty, Civilization, Role Models

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• I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

  Henry Rollins

  Memories, Glorious

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• Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

  Judith McNaught

  Color, Years, Voice

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• Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Letting Go, Fall, People

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to a sharpened point and creates moments of true brilliance. And standing there, nose tickled by the dusty hide of the stuffed deer head, such a moment visited Mosca Mye.

  Frances Hardinge

  Kindness, Soul, Humanity

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